The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
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United States. President. I present this subject to the earnest consideration of Congress . In the mean time , and unless Congress otherwise direct , I shall not oppose the landing of any telegraphic cable which complies with and as ...
United States. President. I present this subject to the earnest consideration of Congress . In the mean time , and unless Congress otherwise direct , I shall not oppose the landing of any telegraphic cable which complies with and as ...
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... Congress may be induced , at the earliest day practicable , to insure the consummation of the act of the last Congress , at its last session , to bring about specie resumption " on and after the 1st of Jan- uary , 1879 , " at furthest ...
... Congress may be induced , at the earliest day practicable , to insure the consummation of the act of the last Congress , at its last session , to bring about specie resumption " on and after the 1st of Jan- uary , 1879 , " at furthest ...
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... Congress to adopt some measures to relieve the embarrassment growing out of the causes named . The Secretary of the Interior suggests that the sup plies now appropriated for the sustenance of that people , being no longer obligatory ...
... Congress to adopt some measures to relieve the embarrassment growing out of the causes named . The Secretary of the Interior suggests that the sup plies now appropriated for the sustenance of that people , being no longer obligatory ...
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... Congress . The powers of Europe , almost without exception , many of the South American states , and even the more distant eastern powers , have man- ifested their friendly sentiments toward the United States and the interest of the ...
... Congress . The powers of Europe , almost without exception , many of the South American states , and even the more distant eastern powers , have man- ifested their friendly sentiments toward the United States and the interest of the ...
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... Congress - sufficiently large to be divided into subcommittees - be organized to visit all the mining States and Territories during the coming summer , and that the com- mittee shall report to Congress at the next session such laws , or ...
... Congress - sufficiently large to be divided into subcommittees - be organized to visit all the mining States and Territories during the coming summer , and that the com- mittee shall report to Congress at the next session such laws , or ...
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Page 33 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Page 475 - Treasury, in the performance of his official duty, and the court certifies that there was probable cause for the act done by the collector or other officer, or that he acted under the directions of the Secretary of the Treasury, or other proper officer of the Government, no execution shall issue against such collector or other officer, but the amount so recovered shall, upon final judgment, be provided...
Page 197 - All debts due to any association, on which interest is past due and unpaid for a period of six months, unless the same are well secured, and in process of collection, shall be considered bad debts within the meaning of this section.
Page 720 - Indian affairs, that such further steps may be taken as shall be proper, in the opinion of the president, to obtain satisfaction for the injury...
Page 9 - ... a constitutional amendment be submitted to the legislatures of the several States for ratification, making it the duty of each of the several States to establish and forever maintain free public schools adequate to the education of all the children in the rudimentary branches within their respective limits, irrespective of sex, color, birthplace, or religions; forbidding the teaching in said schools of religious, atheistic, or pagan tenets...
Page 13 - To establish the condition of things essential to the recognition of this fact there must be a people occupying a known territory, united under some known and defined form of government, acknowledged by those subject thereto, in which the functions of government are administered by usual methods, competent to mete out justice to citizens and strangers, to afford remedies for public and for private wrongs, and able to assume the correlative international obligations and capable of performing the corresponding...
Page 186 - That the amount of United States notes outstanding and to be used as a part of the circulating medium, shall not exceed the sum of...
Page 30 - Islands, equally animated by the desire to strengthen and perpetuate the friendly relations which have heretofore uniformly existed between them, and to consolidate their commercial intercourse, have resolved to enter into a Convention for Commercial Reciprocity. For this purpose the President of the United States has conferred full powers on Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, and His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands has conferred like powers on Honorable Elisha H.
Page 11 - The past year has furnished no evidence of an approaching termination of the ruinous conflict which has been raging for seven years in the neighboring island of Cuba. The same disregard of the laws of civilized warfare and of the just demands of humanity which has heretofore called forth expressions of condemnation from the nations of Christendom has continued to blacken the sad scene. Desolation, ruin, and pillage are pervading the rich iiclds of one of the most fertile and productive regions of...
Page 12 - ... point in occupation of territory, in power, and in general organization as to constitute in fact a body politic; having a government in substance as well as in name; possessed of the elements of stability and equipped with the machinery for the administration of internal policy and the execution of its laws...